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and the larva 'S liberaled. The latter then in the shape - of mae^ot feed on th’e
cute, pillars, mini it is sufficiently fattened to pass.into the pupa or^chrvsalis state
A brown homy case is then secreted around if, from which the pupa alterwaids
sepai ates itseli, and gradually becoming metamorphosed passes into the full developed
animal or imago condition. The orifice is then closed with a little ball of mud-
inoie bottles in succession, to the number of eight or ten, are built, provisioned, and
sealed up in the same way, and the builder then seems to trouble himself no further
about them. Dr. Buist, who has frequently watched these operations at* Bombay,
has never happened to see the grubs or young i ces, but he states that about a
ortn.ght alter the nests are Imished they are all found to be burst tbromd,, when
the fragments of the shell and casing of the chrysalis are seen inaite.—Transactions
oj i/ie Lmean Society, extracted by Dr. Carter. r
APPENDIX- E.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PossES8EDOFEvii.Spir.iTS.— The-Worst kind of'.charlatanism cannot do so much
harm as that species of imposture called bhootov deif which means Witchcraft, or the
black art. By the Hindoos, and a portion ot .the.Christians also, every ailment is
referred to the influence of somebody, through one of the Bhagats or professors of
the black art ; and an unsuspected Bhagat is.con.sulted, who encourages the belief
(as lie is to profit by so doing), and is often prevailed mi, and lias the indiscretion,
to point out some rival Bhagat, and some, enemy of his client (having in the mean
time inquired about all persons that are likely, to,.bear an ill-will against him), as
the offending parties ; himself offering to neutralize the efforts of the other lihagat.
Not to speak of the extortions, of the enmities, and ,of the murders this.is the
source of, his promises to effect this last lead to. the neglect of legitimate advice
and treatment, until the sufferer either recovers or dies, or the disease is rooted in
him. If the issue of the case is favourable, be gets the credit of it ; if otherwise,
he finds some pretext to extricate liimself from his position ; such for instance, as
having found out that the case (m its last, stages) is amenable to medical treat
ment. This evil appears only to be remediable by an enactment imposing a heavy
penalty on those proved to exercise the art, as also some punishment on those
having recourse to them.’’— Dr. Gomes' Account of Medical Practice in Salsette .—
Bombay Government Papers.
Bottle Logs— 1. A bottle thrown overboard from the steamer Singapore at
noon on the 20 th October 1852, in Lat. 6 ° 4G'N., Long, 79° 37' E., was picked up
at Caltura, Ceylon, 1G miles south of .Colombo, at 7 a. m. on the 24th October.
Colombo is in Lat 6 ° 55' N., Long. 79° 50',E.,‘ and the bottle had thus drifted in
four days a distance of about seventy miles south easterly, or at the rate of eight
miles a day It is not stated whether the bottle was found on shore or at sea, so it
may have occupied less time than this on itsjourney. From this andfrom the four-
fifths of our bottle logs quoted below, it would seem that there is occasionally a
drift direct inshore on both sides of.the.southern portion of the peninsula.
2. An extract from a bottle log throwiroverbourd from the ship.Precursor, on
her way from Calcutta to Suez, at noo.n-.on the 2Lst of August 1853, Lat. 4° 30' N.,
Long. 70° 15' E., during a fresh blowing monsoon with squalls, was picked up
at sea betwixt Pulo Lancava, in Lat.. 6 ° 8 ' N., Long. 99° 50' E., and Pulo Bidan,
in Lat. 5° 35', and about Long. 100° 2.1' E., close to the entrance of Penang, at ten
o’clock on the morning of the lath .October last. The bottle had thus been four
teen months, or four hundred and ten days at sea, during which time it had swept
over nearly fifteen hundred miles .-of .space, almost exactly from VV. to E. This
would give tiv. u current of about three miles and a half a day almost directly in